The new wall, built following the floods, runs for three-and-a-half miles between Minnis Bay and Reculver ... Council built new sea defences. Ted Edwards, a flood defence engineer from Canterbury ...

More than 3,000 of England’s most important flood defences are currently in disrepair as experts warn the public is being put “at risk” if the Chancellor refuses to boost the flood budget.

Since then we've also done work at Swalecliffe, Tankerton, Hampton and Reculver ... ll never have another flood, but our improvement works are ongoing and I'd say our defences are pretty good." ...

Ted Edwards, a flood defence engineer from Canterbury City ... "It broke through the northern sea wall at Seasalter and it flooded from Reculver and met with flooding from Sandwich," he said.

Since then national and local government and the Environment Agency have spent millions of pounds on new flood defences Other solutions have included privately funded defences and houses which ...

And last week it emerged that funding on research to improve flood warning and defences has been chopped by almost two thirds since 2009. Brexit, moreover, threatens the new approach. The ...

The public body - which works to protect and improve the environment - said a six-year drive to create new flood defences had exceeded targets. More than 314,000 homes are better protected because ...

Thousands of England's flood defences designed to protect people's homes and businesses are inadequate, government data suggests. Of the key infrastructure designed to protects homes and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Environment secretary Steve Reed is spending an extra £250mn on England’s flood defences as he tries to ...

Flood defences will be bolstered to protect thousands of homes over the next two years, ministers have announced. The Department for Food Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) said a "record" £2 ...